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[cussion and criticism as far as possible. These, indeed, are sorry days for the League of Nations. New meanings are given to words. League principles self-imposed obligations that can
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SHATTERED ILLUSIONS
Dukes, it has been said, are entitled to their ducalities and learned men are equally entitled to their learned jests. "To the psychologist," it was announced in an important lecture to the British Medical Association last month, "the idea of man's equali- ty in the franchise is mere senti- mentality." It was further sug- gested that if the right to vote, not only at elections but after de- bates at the Oxford or Cambridge Union, were restricted to those who had
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achieved a reasonable score in laboratory test of individual judg-. ment, the world might be surprised not only by the issue of the voting but by the reduction in the franchise.
To which it might be replied that Confidence in the League of the world at large would nowa- Nations, as at present constitut-days be surprised by nothing that emerged as a result of a labora- ed, could hardly be described as tory test. It has been taught considerable. But it is certain to to take miracles for granted, and be disastrously less if proceed-if-an-atom can be split in a ings at the League Council meet-laboratory, why not a vote? And the mere removal of one would, ing now in session continue, un-no doubt, seem the simplest thing der the inspiration of the inter-imaginable to an altogether dis- Jested Powers, as they have be passionate and enlightened man of science. Elsewhere, one fears, gun. Dr. Wellington Koo made there would be rather more fuss another strong appeal to League made about liberty and rather members with League obligations less respect paid to laboratories. In voting we just have to put to China for active endorsement up with the oddities on the as- of its condemnation of Japan in sumption that the sanities fär the form of assistance to the outweigh them at Oxford and
everywhere else. victim of aggression, and judg- ing from all the signs, it could not have fallen on stonier soil.
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China's case is, of course, morally Books for Dog Watches and juridically, so complete and
Men in small ships in the Navy shock-proof that Dr. Wellington are in future to have circulating Koo's task in presenting a pow-libraries provided officially. Each erful reasoned argument for destroyer flotilla will have 950 performance of promises was an books in circulation among its 1,400 officers and men. The easy one. Unfortunately, these books will be divided into sets are days when justice appears of 50. Each destroyer will have to be less and less a vital factor two sets at a time, the flotilla lea- der having three, and the senior in international relations, ex-
officer will arrange dates for pediency having taken its place. sets to pass on from one ship to All Geneva's signs point to no another. Escort vessels and sur- veying ships on foreign stations more effective achievement by or on duties where opportunities China's delegate than, perhaps, for exchange of sets are infre the passage of another pious re-quent will be allowed an extra set, while the smallest cräft of all, solution. Much the same atmos- the fishery protection and mine- phere hangs over the discussion sweeping vessels, will have ad- regarding Abyssinia. Secret ditional books available in their meetings of the Council are held senior officer's ship. The books will be selected from the cata- under circumstances which sug-logue already used to supply. gest that effort is concentrated libraries in battleships and crui- not upon the rightness or wrong-sers, and the scheme means ness of things, but upon avoiding considerable increase in purchase of books. At a rough estimate trouble, getting over the problem the publishers (and authors) will with the minimum amount of benefit by sales of an extra 18,000 public-displayed acrimony. The volumes this year. The libraries will contain works of all kinds, object, entirely opposed to the from popular fiction to naval ideals which inspired the build- history, from biography to tech- lers of the League, is to stifle dis-nical engineering works..
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